Word: teething
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have more course theses and less hour examinations? The student has an opportunity in the thesis to develop that particular fraction of a course which interests him; in the hour examination he has to answer, with gritted teeth, detailed, and often stupid, questions which he has learned the day before and forgets on the next. From the emphasis placed on these tests rather than the theses, small wonder that epithets sometimes fly freely...
...beast down the chute just as Pickett started up out of the car door. The ancient cry, "The Lady or the Tiger," became "Pickett or the Bull." Pickett grabbed the beast by the horns, crouched, finally knelt in an effort to throw it. Failing, in desperation, he sank his teeth into the animal's nose, subdued it-which is not strange when we recall that ancient Sicilians and others challenged and fought by "ear biting.". . . J. KRAKAUER...
...flew apart like a mechanical toy. Minister Shigemitsu was blown into the air like a jack-in-the-box, his feet flung wide. Consul General Mural's face was unrecognizable with blood and torn flesh. Admiral Nomura's eye was blown out, General Shirakawa lost all his teeth. General Uyeda lost three toes. Kim Fung-kee, the Korean bomb-thrower, was beaten unconscious by Japanese soldiers. One W. S. Hibbard, a U. S. citizen, protested the detention of two Chinese photographers, was rushed to a police station as a suspect and questioned for hours...
...Another compound (mercuric bichloride) is a corrosive poison (TIME, March 7). Quicksilver helped Joseph Priestley discover oxygen (1/74) and thus start Antoine Laurent Lavoisier on modern chemistry. It dissolves most metals (iron and platinum are among the few exceptions). Besides its familiar uses- gold and silver amalgams to fill teeth; filling for thermometers and ultraviolet ray lamps-it goes into explosives and drugs. Recently it has been used to run electro-turbines at Hartford and Schenectady (TIME, July 8, 1929). The world annually produces about 150,000 "flasks"* of mercury, gets almost all from Spain and Italy, yet appreciable quantities...
Prophylaxis. Strict personal hygiene. Individual towels, linens. Thorough cleanliness of teeth, mouth, throat...